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Index of Global Delirium

9.1

The Index reflects the state of delirium
in a particular country using a 1 to 10 count, with 10 denoting the highest
level of delirium. Levels of delirium change on the basis of current
development in said country, such as instability, terrorism, elections,
sports events and the like, as well as
relevant global developments such financial meltdowns, certain leaks, and
stock market indices. Countries shown above are among those where fluctuation
in the national and local indices have a greater global impact than is the
case with other countries. Note: levels of violence and delirium do
not always coincide. Indeed, a country can have a high delirium level even
though it is relatively stable.

With Racist Butlers,Zombie
Candidates entering or lingering in the fray in America’s 2016 electoral cycle, and
the Rhodes
Effect continuing to influence ongoing debate in Washington, the average
levels of global delirium remain quite high. IGD
Forecastfor next week promises more of the same.

Featured Quote

“It may be too late for Europe to raise its drawbridges, man the
ramparts and enlarge the moat; fortified Europe is a thing of the past” --Hisham
Melhem

The Deliricon

The Obama Doctrine: A policy that
advocates pursuits of courses of action that minimize the immediate risks while
maximizing the immediate rewards for oneself, and showing little attention as
to the consequences for others, and even for one’s future self. The doctrine is
based on the inherent assumption that since the arc of history seems to eventually
bend towards justice, there is little reason why people should overthink the
long-term consequences of their policies or their immediate impact on others.

The Rhodes Effect: A sharp turn in
the public debate allowing a political establishment not interested in
discussing the real issue to shift the ongoing debate allowing it to focus on
some vacuous yet seemingly important revelations. In that sense, it is really
no different than the better known Drumpf Effect, except for the
latter’s penchant for the crass and dramatic.

The Delirica

The Cover Up: Already dozens
of articles have been written about Ben Rhodes’ revealing profile, some critical,
some analytical, some offensive, some defensive, all controversial, and all
miss the real point. The administration did not simply lie to get the Iran Deal;
the administration became complicit in the mass murder taking place in Syria to
get it, as none other than Philip Gordon, the administration’s former top
adviser on the Middle East, recently
hinted. The fact that the truth is so much worse than a lie reflects on all
of us, and not just the administration, and this might be why all are ignoring
the point. Yet by this we all become even more complicit, and part of the cover
up. And make no bones about it, it is a cover up. More on this point soon.

So, in secular democratic countries, and
despite lingering racist attitudes and failed policies of integration, Muslims
of all colors and backgrounds tend to fare far better, and even thrive, in
comparison to how things are for Muslims in countries where they are often the
overwhelming the majority, countries most of which remain autocratic,
anti-modern and underdeveloped.

The lesson: Democracy and secularism, not
Sharia rule, not taking the Quran as a political constitution, are the key
ingredients Muslims need to build better lives for themselves in this world.
People thrive where justice thrives, even if it’s imperfect. And justice as a
notion and a human need is not something that only the followers of a
particular religion can produce.

Before it's too late:My Fellow
Americans: Wise UP! Donald Trump is frankly much smarter than his
opponents give him credit. For yes, it’s not beyond
him to repackage and reboot himself – his life so far has been a series
of moments of self-reinventions and repackaging tailored specifically to help
him deal with certain developments in his life, usually that has a commercial
significance. After that, he always snaps back to his usual corny self, until
the next moment comes. This means that he has a real chance at winning, despite
the demographic challenge facing him as a Republican in a country where the
major population centers have gone steadily over the last two decades or so in
the direction of the Democrats. But the Sanders phenomenon proves that
isolationism is a popular choice among American these days. And as more people
seem ready to vote, perhaps for the first time in decades, if not ever, in the
coming elections, it is quite likely that many of them will end up choosing
Trump over Clinton. In fact, Trump might be the reason why they will choose to
vote.

No, this is not the most likely scenario,
but this a likely scenario. Those interested in avoiding it must take it
seriously and plan their campaign accordingly.

But even if Trump ended up losing this
election, the loss may not signal the end of his phenomenon. Should the battle
be closely fought, Trump might spend the next four years consolidating his hold
on the Republican Party and reinventing it before turning up again in 2020. So,
Hillary in fact needs to defeat Trump, then, have an excellent first term
before we can claim that the Trump phenomenon was effectively contained. Ad we
are speaking here of the phenomenon as reduced to the man himself but not
necessarily to the populist isolationist nationalist ethos he presents, which
is bound to linger for a while longer, or what political choices other members
of his family might eventually make.

The Daily Delirynth

Pride &
Insolence:Ben Rhodes Told
Activists He's ‘Not Proud of Our Syria Policy’ “The Deputy
National Security Advisor, already in hot water over a controversial New York
Times profile, may have just turned up the heat with his latest comments about
Syria.” But President Obama did manage to find a moment of which to be
proud in this regard, showing us all who is the real psychopath-in-chief. The
fact that the Muslims Political Affairs Council has chosen to honor Ben Rhodes
at this stage, making no mention of the policy on Syria is quite indicated of
where the real malaise lies as far Muslims are concerned: it lies in their
hearts, minds and souls where it will stay until they figure out what it means
to really believe in human rights.

“Phil Gordon, a
former senior White House adviser who is now part of the Clinton campaign’s
foreign policy brain trust, argued Thursday that it’s time to stop calling for
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s departure, saying the demand is part of a U.S.
strategy that has failed to end the conflict. The willingness of such a
prominent Middle East observer to make that call, on the record at a media
briefing at the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, signals a greater
openness now in bluntly stating what U.S. officials have accepted for months,
if not years: Assad isn’t leaving.”

“Others of
Clinton’s advisers are more hawkish than Gordon. Tamara Cofman Wittes, who
directed Middle East policy during Clinton’s tenure at the State Department and
now advises her campaign, said openly abandoning the goal of Assad’s ouster
would anger not only the beleaguered Syrian rebels but also powerful regional
forces that back them, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey among them. “As long as
Assad is in place, there are groups on the ground that will keep fighting and
there are actors in the region that will keep supporting them,” said Cofman
Wittes, who is the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the
Brookings Institution.

But the solution in Syria has been simple
and clear since the beginning, for those willing to see it: Si vis pacem,
perfide leo occidere. If you want peace, kill the rogue lion (Assad). But
in fact, killing the lion has always been avoidable, even if he cannot see it.
There are other ways of neutralizing him, without having to add to the crimes
being perpetrated. The inevitability of Assad’s death, of his killing, is the
product of the same policies and the same policymakers who made the whole
carnage in Syria inevitable, a product of the realist mentality whose members
had been peddlers of “Assad is a closet reformer” line before the revolution,
and are now peddlers of the idea that “Assad is the least worse option in Syria.”

Mustafa Amine Badreddine died in a “huge blast” near the Damascus airport, the group’s television network said. Credit Hezbollah, via Associated Press

Inconsequential:Meet the
Pyromaniac Playboy Leading Hezbollah’s Fight in Syria. As another man
of mystery meets his violent end in Syria while perpetrating crimes against
humanity in the service of some self-appointed spokesasshole of God, the fate
of the asshole whose death can make an actual difference in the conflict is
still being hotly debated. Israel may claim responsibility, and might indeed be
responsible, and Hezbollah may accuse
rebels, who are more than happy to be accused, and who might have indeed
provided some information to that facilitated the matter, but one cannot but
wonder as to how these random acts of killing keep eliminating those accused of
involvement in the assassination of the late Rafic Al-Hariri among other
Lebanese figures who sought to help Lebanon rise again as a sovereign entity
independent from the shenanigans and manipulations of the Assad clan and the
Iranian mullahs. So, quo beneficio? Well, it’s not the Syrian people.

Ibn Būt­­īn Al-Moskofī:Special Report:
How Russia allowed homegrown radicals to go and fight in Syria. Abu Bakr
Al-Baghdādī reports on the authority of Ibn Būtīn Al-Moskofī, may Satan be
pleased with both of them, that the latter said: “I once saw three Chechens I
didn’t like, and I seriously considered killing them, as was my habit at the
time. Then, and seeing the problems that my colleague Ibn hafiz Al-Assadi was
facing with all those nonviolent protesters and moderate rebels, I ended up sending
all three to Syria, one to join Daesh, and the other two to spy on him.” More of
my take on the usefulness of Al-Qaeda to all and sundry can be found here
and here.
But this is the essence of the argument I made:

…everybody loves Al-Qaeda –
the terror network that manages to serve everybody’s interests even as it
pushes its own agenda or appear to go “rogue” and step out of bounds. For at
those rogue moments in particular, Al-Qaeda & Co. end up providing an opportunity
for her underhanded sponsors yet public enemies to come together.

The Israeli newspaper
Haaretz, apparently relying on a government source, reported May 2 that Assad’s
forces used sarin gas last month against Islamic State fighters after they
attacked two Syrian air force bases east of Damascus. Stockpiles of this deadly
gas were supposed to have been removed from Syria in 2014. Given the
international silence, Israeli officials are said to fear that Assad will keep
striking with the banned weapons. “With the continuation of fighting in Syria,
it is reasonable to assume that the regime won’t hesitate to use these weapons
again, especially after already having done so ... without any
reaction,” an Israeli source told me.

The answer is simple: Assad can and will,
repeatedly, because the Obama administration simply doesn’t care less.
America’s interests, as understood and promoted by this administration, are not
at stake. As for the humanitarian angle, the administration thinks that by
being the largest provider of humanitarian aid to refugees is doing what all it
can. Like the “pro-life” camp in the controversy surrounding reproductive
rights, the administration is interested solely in keeping as many people alive
as possible, even if at the lowest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The
administration does not see itself concerned with issues pertaining to the
quality of life, to moving beyond the basics and meeting other hierarchical
needs. After all, these are the
responsibilities of a Syrian government, not America’s. Isn’t it?

Why Not? Part II: Syria:
Armed opposition groups committing war crimes in Aleppo city. Why not?
Everybody else is doing it and getting away with it. We cannot expect the
neglected to be saints. True, war crimes are always unjustifiable, but we
should not be surprised when the propensity for them spreads wherever order has
been allowed to implode.

Known to those
of his followers seeking his canonization and entry into the Valtheon of
Deliriology, as Agnus Mundi, and to his detractors as Ranae Dei and even
Capra Satanae, Delirian Mundi’s writings, mixing satire and philosophical
reflections, continue to be polarizing, inspiring both adulation and ridicule.
Bearing this in mind, we, the editors at DDGD, continue to publish these
previously unknown series of “exotic observations and propositions,” as
Delirian himself referred to them, as part of our continuing commitment to
instigate debate over sensitive issues.

* Essentially, the world and history are
made for and by assholes, and for and by killing. Everything else is an
aberration made possible, often accidentally, by some acts of dogged
determination on part of a few restless souls who care about quality of life at
least inasmuch as they care about survival. These are the ones responsible for
actually bending the arc of history towards justice.

Delirium-inducing interviews and interviews induced by delirium with
celebrities who occasionally inhabit the delirial dimension of our world on the
delirial issues of the hour.

The empowering yet fabric-conservative attire Ms. QarDaeshian wore for her lecture at Harvard never risked detracting from the sheer power of her message.

Qim Qardashian: Should Drumpf become
president, I might have to break the internet again!

In a brief interview with reality TV star, Qim QarDaeshian, moments
before she gave her much awaited and hugely attended lecture at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health on the dangerous public health implications of passing laws
forcing transgender parents to identify with their least favorite children, the
sultry public intellectual said to be seriously considering running for the
high office herself at some point in the future, made clear what she really
thought about the possibility that Donald Drumpf might be elected as the 47th
President of the United States. “If this happened,” she warned, “it will be on
account of the shameful tergiversations of the Republican establishment who
failed to take a clear stand against the rampant racism and misogyny of the
man.” But, she continued, “it will also come as a reflection of our failure to
educate voters from both political camps them as to the real and dangerous
implications of this man’s facile policy proposal, the like of which we have
not heard since the time Dufus Uproarius ran for a seat in the Roman Senate as
a member of the Enslave and Fuck Party.”

But, would she do to help prevent or deal with that, our RP minds
wanted to know. Will she contemplate breaking the internet again? “I don’t like
to resort to such radical measures very time this country goes through a
crisis, but this would not be an ordinary crisis. So, yes, I will have no
choice but to break the internet again should Drumpf become president.”

And how would you accomplish that this time?

“Rather than precariously balancing a champagne glass on my buttocks, I
might have to insert the man himself, hands, ego and all right up there. It’ll
be a mercy killing of sorts, but America deserves no less of me.”

Attempts to solicit a response from the Drumpf Campaign have failed to
produce a response.

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A series of post-postmodern takes on the "classics," new
and old, starring the world’s and history’s most (in)famous public figures.
Notice: All characters in these scenes even the fictitious ones are real,
and all their statements, especially those deemed libelous, are their own and
have absolutely nothing to do with the author of this blog, no matter how
delusional he may seem at times, or happen to be, for real.

The Threat: Act 1 – Scene 1

Obama

(in a surprised tone) Threats again me?

Rhodes

(matter-of-factly) Yes, Mr. President.

Obama

That I should be taken out of the White House and shot?

Rhodes

Hanged, to be precise.

Obama

Hanged? I would’ve thought that by now they would’ve come up
with something more original than calling for lynching a black man.

Indeed. I guess, there is no other
choice. Have him arrested, and questioned.

Rhodes

The Butler, Mr. President?

Obama

No. The Donald. Might as well, you know.
A little mischief before I leave office.

Rhodes

I’ll get right on it, Mr. President. (Leaves
stage)

Obama

(looks out of the Oval Office window)
To be or not to be, why is this question still relevant? Is it because it makes us feel
sophisticated, or because I am no longer down with R2P? But how can I be
blamed for that? Getting down with OPP is much more fun for my bare bodkin? He
can bear a fardel or two for OPP. R2P? Not so much. And enterprises of great
pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name
of action.

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